STEM

Moms and Dads, I know, your child is a genius. The thing is, even a young budding genius needs to keep their noggin stimulated to reach their full potential. What’s that? Do I hear some honest parents maybe whispering that their incredible children might not be exactly genius material...yet? Fear not, there are some awesome
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Kids love tablets. Nope, not talking about giant stone tablets with the 10 Commandments, I am talking about any digital tablet that has lights, sounds and motions which just draw in kids of all ages. The thing is, handing your 6 year old your $500 tablet is fraught with potential problems. They could drop and
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Being a parent can be hard. We try to do the right things for our kids, but we often get conflicting messages. Recently, educators have been talking about the need to teach STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) from a very early age. Perfect, I can get my child in front of the computer and
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I get it. You give the kids their own room and suddenly they want to rule over their domain. They set the rules on who can enter, at what times and for what purpose. Rules are fine and all, but is just the creation of rules going to stop a pesky sibling or even worse
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Sometimes more is less. Take a construction toy, remove pieces needed to complete any models in the instruction book and boom you have a better toy! Make sense? Yeah, we lost ourselves at "Sometimes..." Here is the deal, the new ThinkFun Maker Studio Winches Set is an awesome building toy that requires kids to
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I ask you, is there anything that magnets don't make better? Our love of magnets is well documented, but that love just grew stronger with the LightUp Edison Kit. We first saw the LightUp electronics and circuit building kits at Toy Fair 2015, but now we have had a chance to play and learn with the
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